[KC Burke]

Dissemination of information like this among those groups could have worked its way to one or more of the participants and could have changed the time table for the attack.

So the theory would go that the attack was made as a pre-emptive strike by the Al Queda to defend itself from the US?

[gov_bean_ counter]

The attack was going to happen, period. The timing may have been moved up to beat Bush to the punch.